English

Adjective

sponsible ‎(comparative more sponsible, superlative most sponsible)

1. Eye dialect spelling of responsible.
   • 1870, William H. Sparks, The Memories of Fifty Years:

     Dey aint sponsible, she says, for what dere grandfadder did.

   • 1916, Ruth McEnery Stuart, Daddy Do-Funny's Wisdom Jingles:

     One of a small community of superannuated pensioners upon the bounty of their former owners, Daddy was easily first citizen of Evergreen annex on Crepe Myrtle plantation, which is to say he was therein a personage of place and of privilege, coming and going at will, doing as he pleased, and as, with uplifted eye, he reverently boasted, "sponsible to nobody but Almighty Gord for manners and behavior."

Anagrams

• bonspiels